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The Bush administration and the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki on Friday appeared to be on the verge of an agreement that would spell out the conditions under which American troops would remain in Iraq and a timeline for their eventual departure. Simultaneous activity in Washington and Baghdad signalled that an accord was near [...] Violence in Afghanistan this year is worse than at any time since U.S.-led and Afghan forces toppled the militant Islamist Taliban in 2001 and fears are growing among NATO members that they are losing both the military campaign and the support of ordinary Afghans. “In July and August we witnessed the highest number of security incidents [...] This is the candidate who says “I know how to win wars,†and “I know how to catch Bin Laden.†This week, John McCain’s positions on critical foreign policy issues such as Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan have all been undermined by the assessments of our intelligence community, members of the military leadership and his own [...] The McCain team has hastily assembled a team of former Bush White House aides to tutor the vice-presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, on foreign-policy issues, to write her speeches and to begin preparing her for her all-important Oct. 2 debate against Sen. Joe Biden. Does McCain, a supposed foreign policy expert, really think that [...] What began on August 7 as a reckless act of aggression by Georgia to bludgeon the separatist province of South Ossetia into submission, quickly escalated to Russian military intervention in Georgia, and the conflict’s transformation into a proxy war between the U.S. and Moscow. What’s at stake in this conflict is not Georgia’s sovereignty [...] |
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